Every Monday, we take a moment to look back with our resident historian, Emma Kay.
Emma runs Small Histories of New Zealand, where she uncovers curious stories, quirky articles, and lost treasures from our past and shares them online.
With Christmas just around the corner, Emma has been trawling the newspaper archives to uncover some delightfully strange, surprising, and long-forgotten Christmas gifts and adverts from years gone by.
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